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Indian journalist calls US decision against Cuba immoral

New Delhi, Jan 27 (Prensa Latina) Indian journalist Ullekh N.P., author of the book "Mad About Cuba, a Malayali Revisits the Revolution", described the decision to return Cuba to the list of state sponsors of terrorism as an immoral act by the United States.

Speaking to Prensa Latina, the writer said he was not surprised by the decision of the new US government, which he also considered an extreme injustice, and recalled that President Donald Trump reversed all the policies of normalization of ties between Cuba and the United States initiated by his predecessor Barack Obama during his first term in office. Then, towards the end of his first term in 2020, he put Cuba on the list of state sponsors of terrorism to win votes in the state of Florida, the center of anti-Cuban politics in the United States.

Ullekh said that such measures against the Cuban people show that the ghost of Lester Mallory, who wrote the infamous 1960 Cuba memo, is still haunting the White House.

The journalist pointed out that Mallory, who was then Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, was the architect of the modus operandi that the United States continues to employ in its relations with Cuba to strangle the island’s economy. His doctrine was aimed at attacking the extremely popular Cuban leaders; for him, the only way to get rid of that support was to ensure that the people went through hardships, including hunger, so as to force them to rebel against the Cuban leadership out of desperation.

The Indian journalist also stressed that in the United States, Cuba’s policy moves a lot of money from various federal programs to promote political change in the island, which was the original objective outlined by Lester Mallory.

For Ullekh, most Americans have no idea about the policies applied by the United States against Cuba with taxpayers’ money, such as the blockade, which has received an overwhelming rejection by the international community in the United Nations General Assembly 34 times. It is an immoral act on Trump’s part to put Cuba back on the list of state sponsors of terrorism, he stressed.

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